Stephen Isard wrote in
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 |On Fri, 15 Nov 2024, Steffen Nurpmeso steffen-at-sdaoden.eu |s-nail|
 |> wrote:
 |> ...
 |>|>|> I did[.]
 |>|>|>     If the first character is not a digit it is used as the line-
 |>|>|>     break indicator (by default reverse solidus ‘\’); if it
 |> is hy‐
 |>|>|>     phen-minus ‘-’ no symbol is produced.  Thereafter one,
 |> two or
 |>|>|>     three (space separated) numeric values are expected
 |> ...
 |>|> i will change it to say "if the last character is not a digit",
 |>|> you know, then we are backward-compatible.
 |>|> I hope this is also ok :)
 |>|
 |>|Sure!
 |>
 |> Even better (maybe), if all empty only the quote character
 |> compression is performed, but no line wrapping at all.
 |
 |I'm not sure that I'm understanding correctly.  By "all empty" do you 
 |mean no arguments given after "set quote-fold"?  So if the user just 
 |says "set quote-fold", then no folding takes place?  That seems sort of 
 |self-contradictory.  Just the compression with no wrapping strikes me as 

Yes, true, i also had an odd feeling, but then again i did neither
want to add another variable, rename that one, etc etc.

 |at best a niche preference, and not a good candidate for the default 
 |case of no arguments given.  If you want to allow for it at all, maybe 
 |better to make the user ask for it explicitly, e.g., with
 |"set quote-fold=0"

Sure thing, but doing this additionally though.  (Only decimal 0,
other notations still be "real 0".)

Nice you said it, one can actually generate a segmentation
violation with such a setting!  This code is pretty old and was
never anything but a hack, i "normally" would write two context
objects (quote_compressor and line_folder maybe) and feed them
data i would think.  Sigh!  What a mess.  Have to spend time.

Ciao Stephen!

--steffen
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